"John Ball (author) John Dudley Ball (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"", which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He wrote for a number of magazines"
"In the Heat of the Night (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American drama television series based on the 1967 film and the 1965 novel of the same title. It starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief William Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs, and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 until May 19, 1992, then on CBS from October 28, 1992 until May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and O'Connor. In the premiere episode, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs has returned to his fictional home town of"
"stars and it was released Christmas 1991 and 1992 and was among the top holiday recordings of those years around the South and Midwest. In the Heat of the Night (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American drama television series based on the 1967 film and the 1965 novel of the same title. It starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief William Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs, and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 until May 19, 1992, then on CBS from October 28, 1992 until May 16, 1995. Its executive"
"film ""A Soldier's Story"" and for his Academy Award-nominated performance in the film ""Ragtime"". Substance abuse problems led to fewer Rollins' appearances on the series, and he eventually was fired. The Tibbs family was written out of the series. All novels were written by John Ball. Virgil Tibbs Virgil Tibbs is one of the two fictional main characters in John Ball's 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"". He is also the protagonist in six sequels to that novel. On screen, Tibbs is the protagonist in the Oscar-winning 1967 film ""In the Heat of the Night"" and in its"
"the May 1933 issue of The Sphinx (An Independent Magazine for Magicians published from March 1902 through March 1953) and contributed an article called ""Further Ideas"" to The Sphinx in 1937. John Ball (author) John Dudley Ball (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"", which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring"
"Poitier occasionally went to the Capitol Theatre in New York to amuse themselves seeing how many black and white audience members there were, which could be immediately ascertained by listening to the former cheering Tibbs's retaliatory slap and the latter whispering ""Oh!"" in astonishment. Then-freshman critic Roger Ebert in 1967 gave ""In the Heat of the Night"" a positive review and placed it at number ten on his top ten list of 1967 films. AD Murphy of ""Variety magazine"" felt it was a good but uneven film. The film currently holds a 96% ""Certified Fresh"" rating on the review aggregate"
"Dan Biggers Daniel Upshaw ""Dan"" Biggers (January 18, 1931 – December 5, 2011) was an American college official and actor best known for his role as Frank ""Doc"" Robb on the television series ""In the Heat of the Night"". Biggers was born in Newton County, Georgia in 1931. He was an English instructor at Toccoa High School in the late 1950s. In 1963 he became headmaster of Thornwood (Darlington Lower School) in Rome, Georgia. Beginning in 1971, he was Dean of Students at Berry College. Before that, he was on the staff of the Dean of Men at the University"
"Wax Museum. Howard Rollins Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film and television actor. Howard Rollins was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's ""King"", George Haley in the 1979 miniseries """", Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film ""Ragtime"", Captain Davenport in the 1984 film ""A Soldier's Story"", and as Virgil Tibbs on the TV crime drama ""In the Heat of the Night"". Rollins was the youngest of four children born to Ruth and Howard Ellsworth Rollins Sr. in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother was a domestic worker"
"Stirling Silliphant Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his screenplay for ""In the Heat of the Night"", for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series ""Naked City"" and ""Route 66"". Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions ""The Towering Inferno"" and ""The Poseidon Adventure"". His father, Sterling Silliphant, was a Canadian who immigrated to the United States in 1911, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1916. His mother was Ethel M. Silliphant. He had one brother, Leigh,"
"""' Richard Attenborough - ""Doctor Dolittle"" ""' Carol Channing - ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"" Dustin Hoffman - ""The Graduate"" Katharine Ross - ""The Graduate"" Paul Newman Julie Andrews ""' Martin Landau – """" ""' Carol Burnett – ""The Carol Burnett Show"" 25th Golden Globe Awards The 25th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1967, were held on 12 February 1968. ""' Rod Steiger - ""In the Heat of the Night"" ""' Richard Harris - ""Camelot"" ""' Edith Evans - ""The Whisperers"" ""' Anne Bancroft - ""The Graduate"" ""' Mike Nichols - ""The Graduate"" ""' ""In the Heat of the"
"Howard Rollins Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film and television actor. Howard Rollins was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's ""King"", George Haley in the 1979 miniseries """", Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film ""Ragtime"", Captain Davenport in the 1984 film ""A Soldier's Story"", and as Virgil Tibbs on the TV crime drama ""In the Heat of the Night"". Rollins was the youngest of four children born to Ruth and Howard Ellsworth Rollins Sr. in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother was a domestic worker while his"
"at the box office, the commercial peak of his career, with three popular films, ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner""; ""To Sir, with Love"" and ""In the Heat of the Night"". The last film featured his most successful character, Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detective whose subsequent career was the subject of two sequels: ""They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"" (1970) and ""The Organization"" (1971). Many of the films in which Poitier starred during the 1960s would later be cited as social thrillers by both filmmakers and critics. Poitier began to be criticized for being typecast as over-idealized African-American characters who were"
"Forman motion picture, ""Ragtime"". His performance in the film earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, as well as Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture. The following year, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his role on ""Another World"". In 1984, Rollins starred in director Norman Jewison's film, ""A Soldier's Story"" which led to his role as Virgil Tibbs on ""In the Heat of the Night"", the television series based on Jewison's acclaimed 1967 film of the same name. ""In"
"Larry Gates Larry Gates (September 24, 1915December 12, 1996) was an American actor. His notable roles include H.B. Lewis on daytime's ""Guiding Light"" and Doc Baugh in the film version of ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1958). He played the role of Lewis from 1983 to 1996 and won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1985 awards. (He had previously played the role of District Attorney Eric Van Gelder on ""Guiding Light"" in 1977 and 1978.) Gates is also remembered for his role in the film version of ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967), where his"
"Steve Hart and the Cadillac Angels in January 2014. Quentin Dean Quentin Dean (July 27, 1944 – May 8, 2003) was an American actress of the 1960s. Born Quintin Corinne Margolin (some sources cite Corinne Ida Margolin), she was introduced as the 16-year-old temptress Delores Purdy in Norman Jewison's 1967 hit film, ""In the Heat of the Night"", for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her acting career ended in 1969. She died of cancer at age 58 in Los Angeles, California. Her remains were cremated and the ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific"
"Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Cited as ""one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars"", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in ""The Pawnbroker"" (1964), and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film ""In the Heat of the Night"""
"was joined on the recording by A-Team Nashville studio pianist Hargus ""Pig"" Robbins. The song was produced by co-stars Randall Franks and Alan Autry. David Hart (actor) David Hart (born February 6, 1954) is an American actor and singer best known for his portrayal of Sgt. Parker Williams on the smash-hit television series ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1988 to 1995). He has appeared in numerous films. Hart continues to perform in theater around the country, most recently performing as Charlemagne in ""Pippin"" and Oscar in ""The Odd Couple"". He has also appeared in numerous commercials, including IHOP Restaurants,"
"William James Royce William James Royce is an American playwright/director, screenwriter, and novelist. Television William Royce began his television career writing for the NBC television series ""In the Heat of the Night"", starring Emmy Award winning actor Carroll O'Connor as Chief William O. Gillespie and Academy Award nominee Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs. Royce wrote 22 episodes while serving as Executive Story Editor, a position he inherited from writer Matt Harris (Carroll O'Connor). In 1991, Royce wrote the screenplay, as well as the music and lyrics, for the award winning episode entitled, ""Sweet, Sweet Blues"", inspired by the real"
"David Hart (actor) David Hart (born February 6, 1954) is an American actor and singer best known for his portrayal of Sgt. Parker Williams on the smash-hit television series ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1988 to 1995). He has appeared in numerous films. Hart continues to perform in theater around the country, most recently performing as Charlemagne in ""Pippin"" and Oscar in ""The Odd Couple"". He has also appeared in numerous commercials, including IHOP Restaurants, Maxwell House Coffee, Coors Light Silver Bullets, John Deere and GE. Hart was raised primarily by his mother, Jeanette Lassiter Anderson, in Panama City,"
"been acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 was selected as the 39th best American film in the original AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. Steiger had intended returning to the stage, and had signed on to play the title character in Bertolt Brecht's ""Galileo"", at the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in April 1967, but the production was cancelled when he became ill. Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in ""In the Heat of the Night"", opposite Sidney Poitier. He played a"
"consultant for ""American Graffiti"" (1973). Wexler was cinematographer of Mike Nichols' screen version of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1966), for which he won the last Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Black & White) handed out. The following year had Wexler as the cinematographer for the Oscar-winning detective drama, ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967), starring Sidney Poitier. His work was notable for being the first major film in Hollywood history to be shot in color with proper consideration for a person of African descent. Wexler recognized that standard lighting tended to produce too much glare on that kind"
"personalities."" ""In the Heat of the Night"" was first released on DVD in 2001. In 2010, the film was digitized in High Definition (1080i) and broadcast on MGM HD. In 2014, MGM released the film on Blu-ray. The Academy Film Archive preserved ""In the Heat of the Night"" in 1997. ""In the Heat of the Night"" was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning five. They are as follows: American Film Institute recognition In the Heat of the Night (film) In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on"
"in Warner Bros's accounts.) His last screenplay was for the 1995 film ""The Grass Harp"". Silliphant had a child, Lauren (d. 1968), with actress Patricia Wymore. In 1974, Silliphant married Tiana Alexandra Du Long, with whom he had two children, Stirling and Dayle. He died in 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had resided since 1988. His work papers are archived at UCLA's Westwood campus. Stirling Silliphant Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his screenplay for ""In the Heat of the Night"", for which he"
"In Cold Blood (film) In Cold Blood is a 1967 American crime film written, produced and directed by Richard Brooks, based on Truman Capote's nonfiction book of the same name. It stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard ""Dick"" Hickock, two men who murder a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas, and charts their time as fugitives, capture by police, and eventual executions. Although the film is in parts faithful to the book, Brooks made some slight alterations, including the inclusion of a fictional character, ""The Reporter"" (played by Paul Stewart). The film was shot on"
"Heat (1986 film) Heat is a 1986 American action-thriller film about an ex-mercenary working as a bodyguard in Las Vegas. The film was written by William Goldman, based on his 1985 novel of the same name. ""Heat"" was directed by Dick Richards and Jerry Jameson. The film stars Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Neill Barry and Joseph Mascolo. D.D. is in a Las Vegas bar with her milquetoast date, Osgood, When a tough-looking drunk flirts with her, then turns mean, Osgood beats him and makes him apologize. It turns out that the drunk is Nick Escalante, who"
"Hot Summer Night (film) Hot Summer Night is a 1957 film noir crime film starring Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, and Edward Andrews. Out of work but on his honeymoon, Bill Partain, a newspaper reporter, reads about a bank robbery in Sedalia, Missouri pulled off by notorious criminal Tom Ellis and his gang. Having once interviewed Ellis's girlfriend Ruth Childers for a Kansas City paper, Partain figures an exclusive interview with Ellis could assure him of landing a new job. Lying to his new wife Irene about where they are going, Bill drives them to a small Ozarks town where he"
"Me Misters Tibbs!"" had a more open, urban attitude from its San Francisco setting. The music throughout has an edge, with some interesting musical experiments going on ... Jones, as one example, used cimbalom to reflect Tibbs' feelings"". All compositions by Quincy Jones They Call Me Mister Tibbs! They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a 1970 American DeLuxe Color crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas. The second installment in a trilogy, the release was preceded by ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967) and followed by ""The Organization"" (1971). The film's title was taken from a line in the"
"Night of the Big Heat (film) Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British science fiction movie released by Planet Film Productions. Based on the 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington, the film was directed by Terence Fisher, and starred Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Jane Merrow. The film was released theatrically in the United States in the winter of 1971 by Maron Films as Island of the Burning Damned where it was paired up on a nationwide double bill with ""Godzilla's Revenge"", but the poster art confused it with ""Island of Terror"" from"
"asks what people call him at home, Tibbs is quick to respond, ""They call me Mister Tibbs."" The line is delivered more forcefully in the film than it is in the novel. The Tibbs character and his famous quote were both ranked in the AFI 100 Years... series. The Tibbs character was ranked as the 19th greatest hero in the history of American cinema whilst his famous quote was ranked as the 16th greatest quote. In the NBC/CBS television series ""In the Heat of the Night"", Tibbs is a native of Sparta, Mississippi who left the South and became a"
"Quentin Dean Quentin Dean (July 27, 1944 – May 8, 2003) was an American actress of the 1960s. Born Quintin Corinne Margolin (some sources cite Corinne Ida Margolin), she was introduced as the 16-year-old temptress Delores Purdy in Norman Jewison's 1967 hit film, ""In the Heat of the Night"", for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her acting career ended in 1969. She died of cancer at age 58 in Los Angeles, California. Her remains were cremated and the ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean. ""The Ballad of Quentin Dean"" was recorded by"
"on CBS in that show's last three seasons. While coping with his son's drug problem, O'Connor starred as Sparta, Mississippi, Police Chief Bill Gillespie, a tough veteran cop on ""In the Heat of the Night"". Based on the 1967 movie of the same name, the series debuted on NBC in March 1988 and performed well. He cast his son Hugh O'Connor as Officer Lonnie Jamison. The headquarters of the Sparta Police Department was actually the library in Covington, Georgia. Much like O'Connor himself, Gillespie was racially progressive and politically liberal, but the character of Bill Gillespie was also a smart"
"on September 11, 1985. She is an actress, minister, and a civil rights leader. They have two children: son Awodele and daughter Juanita.. Afemo Omilami Afemo Omilami (born December 13, 1950) is an American actor. Also played iIn The Heat Of The Night He has appeared in many films such as ""Glory"" (1989), ""The Firm"" (1993), ""Gordy"" (1995), ""Remember the Titans"" (2000), ""Hounddog"" (2007), ""The Blind Side"" (2009), and ""Terminator Genisys"" (2015). He is perhaps best known for his role as the Drill Sergeant in ""Forrest Gump"" (1994). He was nominated for ""Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic"
"acting awards. His first television appearance was in ""Maid in America"" in 1962 and his last in ""Elizabethtown"" in 2005. His breakout role was in ""The Slugger's Wife"" in 1985. He played ""Doc"" Robb on ""In the Heat of the Night"" for eight years. He was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Rome International Film Festival and also by the Georgia Screen Actors Guild. Biggers died in Rome, Georgia in the morning of December 5, 2011. Dan Biggers Daniel Upshaw ""Dan"" Biggers (January 18, 1931 – December 5, 2011) was an American college official and actor best known for"